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Definition(s) for: 糖衣炮弹

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
糖衣炮弹 táng yī pào dàn - sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 68,691 59,870 -

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
táng- sugar
- sweets
- candy
- CL:顆|颗[ke1],塊|块[kuai4]
táng- old variant of 糖[tang2]
- clothes
- CL:件[jian4]
- Kangxi radical 145
- to dress
- to wear
- to put on (clothes)
bāo- to sauté
- to fry
- to dry by heating
páo- to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)
pào- cannon
- CL:座[zuo4]
- firecracker
pào- variant of 炮[pao4]
dàn- crossball
- bullet
- shot
- shell
- ball
tán- to pluck (a string)
- to play (a string instrument)
- to spring or leap
- to shoot (e.g. with a catapult)
- (of cotton) to fluff or tease
- to flick
- to flip
- to accuse
- to impeach
- elastic (of materials)

Other Words Containing 糖衣炮弹

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
糖衣炮弹 - - 68,691 59,870 -